Improvement in shirt-envelopes



I. GILBERT.

Shirt-Envelope N,'0,1 1, 5'03, Patented March 30, 13751 WITNESSES: INVENTOK 6! A WA/M THE GRAPHIC BO.PHGTO-LITH.39&4'I PARK PLAOE.,N.Y.

., NI'IED STATES JOSEPH GILBERT, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN SHlRT-ENVELOPES.

Specification forniing part of Letters Patent No. 161,503., dated March 30, 1875 application filed November 13, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH GILBERT, of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented an Envelope for Exhibiting and WVrapping Shirts and Shirt-Bosoms, of which the following is a specification: V

The object of my invention is to so construct an envelope for a shirt-bosom that so much only of the same shall be exposed to view as is permitted by a vest to appear on the body of the wearer, thereby affording to the purchaser a better idea of the general appearance of the bosom than when the folded shirt is exposed to View in the usual manner. I attain this object in the manner which I will now proceed to describe, reference beng had to the accompanying drawing, which shows the envelope as it appears when open.

A is the body of the envelope, and O the loose flap for closing the body, the latter havin g a pocket, B, for the reception of the folded shirt. This pocket is open in front at a, the opening being of the same size and form as that presented by the front of a buttoned vest and near the edge of this opening are represented, by printing or otherwise, folds b I), like those of a vest; in fact, the front of the pocket is made to represent the front of a vest, and when the folded shirt is placed in the pocket the bosom will have the same appearance as it has on the wearer. The flap 0 is turned down onto the pocket, so as to protect the bosom from dust, 850., when no inspection of the shirt is called for.

I am aware that envelopes have been heretofore made to expose portions only of their contents, as in photographic envelopes. This I do not claim, broadly; but

1 claim as my inventiona A shirt or shirt-bosom envelope having a pocket, with the front cut and marked to represent the front of a vest, as and for the purpose set forth.

JOSEPH GILBERT.

Witnesses:

DAVID BEITLER, EDWARD HALL. 

